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In reply to the discussion: News About Obamacare Has Been Bad Lately. How Bad? [View all]Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)14. Unless we get the landscape of Congress changed I don't see either happening.
Since the Republicans have taken over the house, their only interest is running bill after bill just to remove the ACA with no replacement.
Until we can get Congress back, I just don't see any kind of roll call vote that would pass either option.
I do agree that once we have the numbers a government option will have better chances than single payer. The government option would be the doorway to an eventual single payer system though.
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Or ... the ACA is the mostest worstest disasterousest thing ever! because, Obama.
pampango
Apr 2016
#2
A vacuum doesn't suck; the air behind pushes. Gravity is not "just is"; it requires presence of mass
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2016
#21
Hell, people just above the expanded medicaid cutoff will get squeezed, too.
strategery blunder
Apr 2016
#5
Medicare for All, including dental, optical, hearing aids and mental health services.
Scuba
Apr 2016
#7
Perhaps we should consider a national public insurance system funded through taxes
Warren Stupidity
Apr 2016
#12
The affordable care act also included provisions that have led to tests for other models for paying
karynnj
Apr 2016
#19
This has already happened to us & will indeed be the demise of the whole house of cards that is ACA
Kip Humphrey
Apr 2016
#35
It's a cluster $%^%. According to every healthcare provider I have talked to. nt
clarice
Apr 2016
#40